We’ve all been there: lugging heavy bags of mulch to the car, straining our backs and making a mess. These dehydrated coir mulch blocks weigh just 9 pounds and are delivered right to your door. Just add water and in 20 minutes, you’ll have 2 cubic feet of earth-friendly mulch. Made from coconut husks, coir has better water retention than bark, and reduces the temperature and moisture fluctuation by 50%. Keeps its rich color, too.

I bought several blocks of this mulch this past year and used them around my garden and beds. I found that I would have to apply far more than I bought to get more than a thin layer of mulch. I had already spent a good deal more than it would have cost to buy wood chips or other alternatives, so I ended up using wood chips which were free from a local tree cutting service in addition to the coir. The coir mulch is prettier than wood chips or leaves/pine straw, so I would recommend it for smaller landscape beds or containers and use cheaper alternatives for large areas. They also will break down quicker than coir to nourish your soil.

I love this stuff -- I can carry it without having to bother someone to help me, it expands quickly, and it's easy to use. Since it's so wet, it also waters my plants! If you look at it objectively it's expensive for what you get but I'm willing to pay for the convenience of being able to work in my garden when I want to, not on everyone else's schedule.

Love how compact the bricks are. Open one up, break it apart in your wheelbarrow, add the water, stir, push the wheelbarrow to the area you want the mulch to go, dump and spread. A little manual labor, but a great look to the natural area and the flowers and shrubs love it. Sure cut down on all of the weeds and watering, too.

Happy with the way it makes my flower garden look so professional. I liked not having to lug heavy awkward sacks of mulch, and the ease of application to soil. Did take some time to get the blocks to a workable consistancy, needed much more water than stated in directions. I live in semi-arid part of country, and hope to be able to conserve water using this mulch, the dry wind and heat make watering quite a chore here.

I use these mulch blocks for my flower bed. I have a tropical theme, so these mulches look great along my Japanese Mabel tree, a few shrubs and flowers. It's so fun to use by just adding water and watching them loosening up. My flower bed looks nice and neat and unique from the rest of the neighbors. It's a little pricy though and it fails to deter weeds despite the fact that I lay wet newspaper under the mulch.

This is a super idea! And it looks great in the yard! NOTE: When using this product, make sure you have a wheel barrow or something that size in which you can put the mulch block in and have it completely submerged in water. I did not have anything that large. I used a large bucket and had to keep flipping the block until it totally broke down. That took longer than I anticipated. However, it does look really good in the yard.

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